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International Social Survey Program: Work Orientations II, 1997 (ICPSR 3032)

Principal Investigator(s):International Social Survey Program (ISSP)

Summary:

The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an
ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the
group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social
science as supplements to regular national surveys. This survey is the
second in a series exploring the "work orientations" topic. The
first survey on this topic was conducted in 1989 (ICPSR 9784).
Participating countries in the present survey include Bangladesh,
Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech... (more info)

The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an
ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the
group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social
science as supplements to regular national surveys. This survey is the
second in a series exploring the "work orientations" topic. The
first survey on this topic was conducted in 1989 (ICPSR 9784).
Participating countries in the present survey include Bangladesh,
Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United
States. As in 1989, the module focused on the areas of general
attitudes toward work and leisure, work organization, and work
content. Opinions were elicited on issues such as respondent
preferences for more work or more leisure time, the value of work in
general, and how important factors such as job security, high income,
opportunities for advancement, job interest, independence, and value
to others were to the respondent. Other questions focused on what
factors should determine how to pay two people doing the same kind of
work, the effects the introduction of new technologies (computers,
robots, etc.) would have on the workplace, attitudes about
self-employment, size of the workplace, public vs. private sector
employment, and full-time vs. part-time work. Respondents were also
asked how easy or difficult it would be to find an acceptable job, how
they felt about their present job, and how they viewed their working
conditions (e.g., if they came home exhausted from work, amount of
stress and possible danger on the job, working hours, place of work,
whether their status was temporary or permanent, how their present job
made use of their skills, and how they acquired these
skills). Additional questions elicited information on relations in the
workplace between management and employees and between workmates, how
satisfied respondents were with their job, how they felt about their
organization, how many days they had been absent (excluding vacation)
from work in the last six months, how likely it was that they would
try to find a new job within the next twelve months, and how much they
worried about the possibility of losing their job. A special group of
questions focused on respondents who were not currently employed.
Demographic variables include age, sex, education, marital status,
personal and family income, employment status, household size and
composition, occupation, religion and church attendance, social class,
union membership, political party, voting history, size of community,
region, and ethnicity.

This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were
received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to
Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to
non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to
ensure respondents' anonymity.

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as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.

Universe:
Persons aged 18 years and older except in Japan, the
Netherlands, and Russia (16 years and older).

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The data are provided as an SPSS portable file and
are weighted.

This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were
received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to
Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to
non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to
ensure respondents' anonymity.

The codebook is provided by ICPSR
as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.